Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Websites/Blog:

Before starting AS media, I wasn't scared of using new technologies as I've used editing software and Photoshop before in previous subjects. The first thing that we have looked at was creating a blog, it wasn't new to me as I had a blog before. I was happy that we are using blog instead of written work, as blog is so much easier and also more effective when it comes to handing in the work. The thing that I really like about blogger is that you can share your work with others. You can also look at others people work from the past so you get the idea of what kind of work you have to produce. Internet contains the information that you can't find in books, its relevant to the industry as more and more information are now publicised on internet. Those information can be updated and changed to fit the changes that the day brings. I've used blogger in the process of producing my magazine for research purposes. By the use of blogger I was able to plan exactly what I want my magazine to look like. On my blog we can find the research of existing magazines and flat plan. It was a necessary research that had to be done in order to come up with my final design of the magazine. Furthermore, I've also used google to do most of my magazine research. By the use of google I was able to find AP magazine which was an inspiration for my music magazine.

Before I've started to create my magazine I started to creating my magazine, I had to find out what should be the name for my music magazine. For that I've used poll-maker.com. This is a website that allows you to create a questionnaire which everyone can see and answer. The reason that I've used this website is because everyone can give me their answer and opinions. It is a great way to communicate with others as everyone is using internet in their everyday life.

Software: 

When it comes to creating of my magazine I have used only one main software which is adobe photoshop cs6. I have used this photoshop not only to adjust the look of photographs but also to create my whole magazine. As an art student I was quite comfortable with this task because using photoshop wasn't new to me. 

 I've decided to use photoshop instead of publisher as it give you much more options in terms of changing the looks of the layout and look of my photographs. I was able to adjust the way that my font looked like so there wasn't a need to use dafont.com or any other font creating website as I found out that it just wasn't needed.  I've used photoshop not only to create a layout but to also add text. I've decided not to use publisher to add columns as it was still possible to do on photoshop.

As I went along with creating my magazine I felt like I've developed my skills as creating my music magazine took me less amount of time than my preliminary task. I had a bigger understanding of the layout and looks. 

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